The TV chef, who is gracing many a national newspaper front page today because of her alleged drug habit, has become the title's beauty expert - nay, 'Beauty Director' - for one week only across six, Sixties-inspired, wide-eyed, puffy-faced pages guest-edited by comedian Miranda Hart.

While allegations about Lawson's private life were revealed in court yesterday - as Italian sisters Francesca and Elisabetta Grillo are accused of defrauding Ms Lawson and her ex-husband Charles Saatchi while working as their assistants -
Stylist
was going to press with a healthy-sized article about her Christmas party preening.

Lawson's party prescription includes getting lashed - "I long to learn to put false eyelashes on myself," she says - and putting a lot of slap on: "there's a face people put on when they apply make-up," she says. Of course she does. "Sixties make-up was not subtle but it was like a gorgeous form of face paint," says Lawson, who attributes her beauty habits to her mother.